Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keen observations, whether of animal or plant, carry mystical overtones. He would insist with Thoreau that "this curious world which we inhabit ... is more to be admired and enjoyed than it is to be used." Indeed, he takes up the cudgels against man's shortsighted ambition to "control nature." That whole concept, he asserts, is false. Modern man needs greater understanding of "the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part." The idea of a world for man's use only is unrealizable. Long ago Alexander Pope summed it up with...
...company cannot insist on a contract guaranteeing a prestrike secret ballot of all workers, union and nonunion. The Borg-Warner division in Wooster, Ohio tried to write such a contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O.. but the board ruled the clause illegal because a vote by union and nonunion workers would dilute the union's bargaining powers and rights...
...have not even been under the same rule since 1191, when they were both part of the Byzantine Empire, but the most electric word among Cypriots today is enosis (union with Greece). Just how widespread the urge for enosis is among Cypriots is a matter of dispute. The British insist that the agitation is largely the doing of one man, bearded Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, who calls himself the ethnarch, i.e., governor of Cyprus...
Many people, impatient with man's mental limitations, insist that he has a whole set of hidden abilities that have long been ignored. In one such school are University of London Mathematician S. G. Soal and Duke University Psychologist Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, who term themselves parapsychologists.* They use sets of dice and packs of cards bearing numbers, letters or symbols, say that certain subjects can guess card identities or control the roll of dice beyond mathematical probability-even from a great distance. Their explanation: there exists in the human makeup a mysterious force called psi (from the Greek...
...many of Frank's friends insist that he has matured of late. He shows intense devotion to his children, visiting them almost every day and taking them with him wherever he can. He has buttressed the flimsy walls of present success with long-range business enterprises-five music companies, an independent film outfit, a 2% chunk of the enormous Sands gambling hotel in Las Vegas, and eleven shares "of the Atlantic City Racetrack. In movies, he picks his parts as carefully as he has always picked songs that suit both his talent and his taste. He works as fiercely...